Dear Director Feltri,
In Calabria we will reply the same script staged in Liguria? A governor seeing the center -right investigated, perhaps forced to resign after weeks of media fire and political pressure, as happened to Giovanni Toti? I wonder if it is not yet another proof of the now chronic intrusion of the judiciary in the political sphere, with the aim even more harassed to decide who can and who cannot administer public affairs.
Giacomo d’Ascola
Dear Giacomo,
The question is legitimate. And the answer, I’m afraid, is disconcerting in its obviousness: yes, it is highly likely. Because in Italy where the toga often weighs more than the vote is enough a warranty notice to put a man to the pillory, discredit him, and destroy the trust that the people have placed in him. And if that man is center -right, better still for certain environments.
Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region, was achieved by a guarantee notice. Not a sentence, not a sentence, not even a indictment. Only a due act, which today is worth as much as a preventive sentence in the Court of public opinion. For progressives, the only notification is enough to shout at the scandal, to ask for the resignation, to start the usual moralist tarantella who only serves to mask their thirst for power.
But I continue to believe in the constitutional principle of presumption of innocence. I know, today it is a concept overcome for many, a discomfort. It only applies to companions, for friends of friends, for those with closed fist and the rainbow flag. The other political enemies must rot in suspicion, possibly before even a serious file is open in the prosecutor.
Occhiuto did what a serious man has to do: he communicated everything immediately, without cunning, without omissions. He said clearly: “I also investigate, I have a clean consciousness.” A rare behavior today. Transparent, dignified. But that’s not enough. For certain vultures of politics and press, the important thing is to venture.
In Calabria, then, being president of the region is equivalent to walking with a target on the back. It is not enough for the suspicion, defamation, poisonous gossip: “It will be colluded”, “he will have friends in the wrong environments”, “figured if he has not made favors”. No tests, only illunctions. And today we try to sew the dress of the corrupt, the politician of apparatus, the dirty man on Occhiuto. It is a dress that does not belong to him.
So, dear Roberto, listen to those who have a few annex on his shoulders and know the mud car well: keep the position. Stay in your place. Head -on.
Because Calabria does not need martyrs, but of administrators who do not bend to blackmail, neither media nor judicial. You will get out stronger. And who today points your finger at you, tomorrow will pretend to have never seen you.